This week's Inside the Vault is with Obsidian and Fallout: New Vegas Senior Artist Joe Sanabria. Here are the highlights:

What’s your job at Obsidian?

I’m a Senior Artist here at the studio, which is what they call you when you get gray hairs and have been doing this for a few years.

My job in a nutshell is to make Fallout: New Vegas look good. I focus on the visual development of the game and define the artistic direction.

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Any fun facts you’d like to share about Obsidian?

At around 4pm they unlock the doors and a few Obsidianites will wander around the Irvine Spectrum, which is an outdoor shopping center across the street, for about 20 minutes and then return to their desks.

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You were an artist in NYC and now you work in the OC. How do the scenes compare?

Well, technically it’s upstate NY and not the city where I grew up. But I was no stranger to the streets of Manhattan, in particular Washington Heights.

But getting to the question, I don’t think it’s a fair comparison. There are so many museums and galleries in Manhattan, I think that just the work in the Met alone is probably larger than all the museums and galleries of OC combined.